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so when i tried to kill this goat and i couldn't emmanuel bent down he puts his hand over the mouth of the goat covers its eyes so i don't have to look into them while i kill the goat it didn't seem like a lot for this guy who'd seen so much and to whom the killing of a goat must have seemed such a experience still found it in himself to try to protect me i was a wimp i cried for a very long time and afterwards he didn't say a word he just sat there watching me cry for an hour and then afterwards he said to me it will always be difficult but if you cry like this every time you will die of heartbreak just know that it is enough sometimes to know that it is difficult of course talking about goats makes me think of sheep and not in good ways
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so i was born two days after christmas so growing up you know i had a cake and everything but i never got any presents because born two days after christmas so i was about nine and my uncle had just come back from germany and we had the catholic priest over my mother was entertaining him with tea and my uncle suddenly says where are chris' presents and my mother said don't talk about that in front of guests but he was desperate to show that he'd just come back so he summoned me up and he said go into the bedroom my bedroom take anything you want out of the suitcase it's your birthday present i'm sure he thought i'd take a book or a shirt but i found an inflatable sheep
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and i was this weird sensitive kid who couldn't really do it but i had to do it and i was supposed to do this alone but a friend of mine called emmanuel who was significantly older than me who'd been a boy soldier during the war decided to come with me which sort of made me feel good because he'd seen a lot of things now when i was growing up he used to tell me stories about how he used to bayonet people and their intestines would fall out but they would keep running so this guy comes with me and i don't know if you've ever heard a goat or seen one they sound like human beings that's why we call tragedies a song of a goat my friend brad kessler says that we didn't become human until we started keeping goats anyway a goat's eyes are like a child's eyes
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and he would always laugh and say come on man we'll make it out then i'd say how do you know and he said oh i heard it on the grapevine they killed him they handcuffed him to a chair and they tacked his penis to a table with a six inch nail then left him there to bleed to death that's how i ended up in solitary because i let my feelings be known all around us everywhere there are people like this the used to say that they built their own gods they would come together as a community and they would express a wish and their wish would then be brought to a priest who would find a ritual object and the appropriate sacrifices would be made and the shrine would be built for the god
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they would come together as a community and they would express a wish and their wish would then be brought to a priest who would find a ritual object and the appropriate sacrifices would be made and the shrine would be built for the god but if the god became unruly and began to ask for human sacrifice the would destroy the god they would knock down the shrine and they would stop saying the god's name this is how they came to reclaim their humanity every day all of us here we're building gods that have gone rampant and it's time we started knocking them down and forgetting their names it doesn't require a tremendous thing all it requires is to recognize among us every day the few of us that can see are surrounded by people like the ones i've told you there are some of you in this room amazing people who offer all of us the mirror to our own humanity
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yet when we consider the experience of the modern day combat veteran we begin to see that we have not been as good at preparing them to come home why is that well our ancestors lived immersed in conflict and they fought right where they lived so until only very recently in our evolutionary history there was hardly a need to learn how to come home from war because we never really did but thankfully today most of humanity lives in far more peaceful societies and when there is conflict we especially in the united states now have the technology to put our warriors through advanced training drop them in to fight anywhere on the globe and when they're done jet them back to peacetime suburbia but just imagine for a moment what this must feel like i've spoken with veterans who've told me that one day they're in a brutal firefight in afghanistan where they saw carnage and death and just three days later they found themselves toting an ice chest to their kid's soccer game is the most common term
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carlos the vietnam vet marine who volunteered for three tours and got shot up in every one in he was medically retired because he had so much shrapnel in his body that he was setting off metal detectors for the next years he suffered from nightmares extreme anxiety in public isolation depression he self medicated with alcohol he was married and divorced three times carlos had post traumatic stress disorder
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this is a jellyfish but look closely and living inside of this animal is another organism that is very likely entirely new to science a complete new species or how about this other transparent beauty with a beating heart growing on top of its head progeny that will move on to reproduce sexually let me say that again this animal is growing on top of its head progeny that is going to reproduce sexually in the next generation a weird jellyfish not quite this is an this is a group of animals that now we know we share extensive ancestry with and it is perhaps the closest invertebrate species to our own meet your cousin thalia democratica
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many of the biological sciences only see value in studying deeper what we already know in mapping already discovered continents but some of us are much more interested in the unknown we want to discover completely new continents and gaze at magnificent vistas of ignorance we crave the experience of being completely baffled by something we've never seen before and yes i agree there's a lot of little ego satisfaction in being able to say hey i was the first one to discover that but this is not a self aggrandizing enterprise because in this type of discovery research if you don't feel like a complete idiot most of the time you're just not hard enough
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our collective optimism is reflected by the growth of biotechnology across the globe striving to utilize scientific knowledge to cure human diseases things like cancer aging degenerative diseases these are but some of the we wish to tame i often wonder why is it that we are having so much trouble trying to solve the problem of cancer is it that we're trying to solve the problem of cancer and not trying to understand life life on this planet shares a common origin and i can summarize billion years of the history of life on this planet in a single slide what you see here are representatives of all known species in our planet in this of life and biodiversity we occupy a rather unremarkable position
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of you have heard about the fact that a starfish can actually regenerate its arm after it's lost but some of you might not know that the arm itself can actually regenerate a complete starfish and there are animals out there that do truly astounding things i'm almost willing to bet that many of you have never heard of the flatworm this little guy right here does things that essentially just blow my mind you can grab one of these animals and cut it into different fragments and each and every one of those fragments will go on to regenerate a complete animal in under two weeks heads bodies mysteries for the past decade and a half or so i've been trying to figure out how these little dudes do what they do and how they pull this magic trick off but like all good magicians they're not really releasing their secrets readily to me
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so we ride off from eel pond into vineyard sound right off the coast of martha's vineyard equipped with a drone to identify potential spots from which to peer into the atlantic earlier i was going to say into the depths of the atlantic but we don't have to go too deep to reach the unknown here barely two miles away from what is arguably the greatest marine biology lab in the world we lower a simple plankton net into the water and bring up to the surface things that humanity rarely pays any attention to and oftentimes has never seen before
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the last of our kind and though i don't really want to disparage at all the accomplishments of our species as much as we wish it to be so and often pretend that it is we are not the measure of all things we are however the of many things we relentlessly quantify analyze and compare and some of this is absolutely invaluable and indeed necessary but this emphasis today on forcing biological research to specialize and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths
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this emphasis today on forcing biological research to specialize and to produce practical outcomes is actually restricting our ability to interrogate life to unacceptably narrow confines and unsatisfying depths we are measuring an astonishingly narrow sliver of life and hoping that those numbers will save all of our lives how narrow do you ask well let me give you a number the national oceanic and atmospheric administration recently estimated that about percent of our oceans remain unexplored now let that sink in for a second percent of our oceans remain unexplored i think it's very safe to say that we don't even know how much about life we do not know
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meet our nobel prize winners seven species essentially that have produced for us the brunt of our understanding of biological behavior today this little guy right here three nobel prizes in years
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as i did so slid the chair i just figured i'd made a mistake and went back to the right and so slid the chair in perfect now i was getting a little anxious i went back to the left and so slid the chair blocking my path of travel now i was officially freaking out so i yelled who the hell's out there what's going on just then over my shout i heard something else a familiar rattle it sounded familiar and i quickly considered another possibility and i reached out with my left hand as my fingers brushed against something fuzzy and i came across an ear the ear of a dog perhaps a golden retriever its leash had been tied to the chair as her master went in for coffee and she was just persistent in her efforts to greet me perhaps get a scratch behind the ear who knows maybe she was volunteering for service
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and i'm not paranoid but everywhere i go i'm getting all sorts of advice go here move there watch out for this a lot of the information is good some of it's helpful a lot of it's kind of reversed you've got to figure out what they actually meant some of it's kind of wrong and not helpful but it's all good in the grand scheme of things but one time i was in oakland walking along broadway and came to a corner i was waiting for an audible pedestrian signal and as it went off i was just about to step out into the street when all of a sudden my right hand was just gripped by this guy and he yanked my arm and pulled me out into the crosswalk and was dragging me out across the street speaking to me in mandarin
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but while in oakland i've really been struck by how much the city of oakland changed as i lost my sight i liked it sighted it was fine it's a perfectly great city but once i lost my sight and was walking along broadway i was blessed every block of the way bless you man go for it brother god bless you i didn't get that sighted
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so my final for you is that not only is the city good for the blind but the city needs us and i'm so sure of that that i want to propose to you today that the blind be taken as the prototypical city dwellers when imagining new and wonderful cities and not the people that are thought about after the mold has already been cast it's too late then so if you design a city with the blind in mind you'll have a rich network of sidewalks with a dense array of options and choices all available at the street level if you design a city with the blind in mind sidewalks will be predictable and will be generous the space between buildings will be well balanced between people and cars in fact cars who needs them if you're blind you don't drive
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as it went off i took off and safely got to the other side stepping onto the sidewalk i then heard the sound of a steel chair slide across the concrete sidewalk in front of me
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but that little story is really about the fears and misconceptions that come along with the idea of moving through the city without sight seemingly oblivious to the environment and the people around you so let me step back and set the stage a little bit on st patrick's day of i reported to the hospital for surgery to remove a brain tumor the surgery was successful two days later my sight started to fail on the third day it was gone
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immediately i was struck by an incredible sense of fear of confusion of vulnerability like anybody would but as i had time to stop and think i actually started to realize i had a lot to be grateful for in particular i thought about my dad who had passed away from complications from brain surgery he was i was seven at the time so although i had every reason to be fearful of what was ahead and had no clue quite what was going to happen i was alive my son still had his dad
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so although i had every reason to be fearful of what was ahead and had no clue quite what was going to happen i was alive my son still had his dad and besides it's not like i was the first person ever to lose their sight i knew there had to be all sorts of systems and techniques and training to have to live a full and meaningful active life without sight so by the time i was discharged from the hospital a few days later i left with a mission a mission to get out and get the best training as quickly as i could and get on to rebuilding my life within six months i had returned to work my training had started i even started riding a tandem bike with my old cycling buddies and was commuting to work on my own walking through town and taking the bus it was a lot of hard work
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because there is different types of design the one we can call it the cynical design that means the design invented by raymond loewy in the who said what is ugly is a bad sale la se mal which is terrible it means the design must be just the weapon for marketing for producer to make product more sexy like that they sell more it's shit it's obsolete it's ridiculous i call that the cynical design after there is the narcissistic design it's a fantastic designer who designs only for other fantastic designers
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it's our romanticism mu we are mutants and if we don't deeply understand if we don't integrate that we are mutants we completely miss the story because every generation thinks we are the final one we have a way to look at earth like that you know i am the man the final man you know we mutate during four billion years before but now because it's me we stop fin
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something like that i am not sure of that
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if we take the toothbrush i don't think about the toothbrush i think what will be the effect of the brush in the mouth and to understand what will be the effect of the toothbrush in the mouth i must imagine who owns this mouth what is the life of the owner of this mouth in what society does this guy live what civilization creates this society what animal species creates this civilization when i arrive and i take one minute i am not so intelligent when i arrive at the level of animal species that becomes real interesting me i have strictly no power to change anything but when i come back i can understand why i shall not do it because today to not do it it's more positive than do it or how i shall do it but to come back where i am at the animal species there is things to see there is things to see there is the big challenge the big challenge in front of us
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so then shoo lightning arrive shoo makes life and that dies some million years after shoo ah wake up at the end finally that succeeds and life appears we was so so stupid the most stupid bacteria
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after we become a fish after we become a frog after we become a monkey after we become what we are today a super monkey and the fun is the super monkey we are today is at half of the story can you imagine from that stupid bacteria to us with a microphone with a computer with an four billion years and we know and especially carolyn knows that when the sun will implode the earth will burn explode i don't know what and this is scheduled for four four billion years yes she said something like that ok that means we are at half of the story
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you know when i was watching the video again of the match you must have felt like the fate of the world's women was on every stroke you took were you feeling that first of all bobby riggs he was the former number one player he wasn't just some hacker by the way he was one of my heroes and i admired him and that's the reason i beat him actually because i respected him
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workforce is going to be i think they are going to help solve problems i think they have the wherewithal to do it i know they care a lot they have big ideas and they can make big things happen i want to stay in the now with the young people i don't want to get behind
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say do you really think so because i do think they care about the environment and all these things and they go oh billie they cannot focus
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they can't focus and they don't really care i just heard a story the other night a woman owns a gallery and she has these workers she gets a text from one of the workers like an intern she's just starting she goes oh by the way i'm going to be late because i'm at the
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so she arrives and this boss says what's going on and she says oh i was late sorry how's it going she says well guess what i'd like you leave you're finished she goes ok
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gets you up every morning what keeps you sustaining your work sustaining the fight for equality extending it always exploring new areas trying to find new ways well i always drove my parents crazy because i was always the curious one i'm highly motivated my younger brother was a major league baseball player my poor parents did not care if we were any good
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and i was really nervous whenever we announced it and i felt like the whole world was on my shoulders and i thought if i lose it's going to put women back years at least title had just been passed the year before june and women's professional tennis there were nine of us who signed a one dollar contract in now remember the match is in so we were only in our third year of having a tour where we could actually play have a place to compete and make a living so there were nine of us that signed that one dollar contract and our dream was for any girl born any place in the world if she was good enough there would be a place for her to compete and for us to make a living because before we made dollars a day and we were under the control of organizations so we really wanted to break away from that
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that was really on my mind i really wanted to start matching the hearts and minds to title title in case anybody doesn't know which a lot of people probably don't said that any federal funds given to a high school college or university either public or private had to finally give equal monies to boys and girls and that changed everything
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and i am so happy i saw that as a young man and one of those young men at years old was president and he actually told me that when i met him he said you don't realize it but i saw that match at and now i have two daughters and it has made a difference in how i raise them
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the end of the year so i was daydreaming at the los angeles tennis club and i started thinking about my sport and how tiny it was but also that everybody who played wore white shoes white clothes played with white balls everybody who played was white and i said to myself at years old where is everyone else and that just kept sticking in my brain and that moment i promised myself i'd fight for equal rights and opportunities for boys and girls men and women the rest of my life and that tennis if i was fortunate enough to become number one and i knew being a girl it would be harder to have influence already at that age that i had this platform
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and learn to stick up for yourself hear your own voice you hear the same words keep coming out all the time and i got really lucky because i had an education and i think if you can see it you can be it you know if you can see it you can be it you look at pat you look at other leaders you look at these speakers look at yourself because everyone everyone can do something extraordinary every single person and your story billie has inspired so many women everywhere now with the billie jean king leadership initiative you're taking on an even bigger cause because one thing we hear a lot about is women taking their voice working to find their way into leadership positions but what you're talking about is even bigger than that
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she's got this other job whatever that may be but she's also trying to fit in or this poor man who kept his diploma he went to university of michigan but he never would talk about his poverty as a youngster ever just would not mention it so he made sure they saw he was well educated and then you see a gay guy who has an which means american football for all of you out there it's a big deal it's very macho and he talked about football all the time because he was gay and he didn't want anybody to know it just goes on and on so my wish for everyone is to be able to be their authentic self that would be the ultimate and we catch ourselves i mean i catch myself to this day even being gay i catch myself you know like a little uncomfortable a little surge in my gut feeling not totally comfortable in my own skin so i think you have to ask yourself i want people to be themselves whatever that is just let it be
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partnership with a strategic company that's amazing that's really the reason i'm able to do this i've had two times in my life where i've actually had men really behind me with power and that was in the old days with philip morris with virginia slims and this is the second time in my entire life
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and he should have said what a strange long trip it's about to become at this very moment you are viewing my upper half my lower half is appearing at a different conference in a different country
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it's a journey that started years ago you may remember that song we are the world or do they know it's christmas band aid live aid another very tall grizzled rock star my friend sir bob issued a challenge to feed the world it was a great moment and it utterly changed my life that summer my wife ali and myself went to ethiopia we went on the quiet to see for ourselves what was going on we lived in ethiopia for a month working at an orphanage the children had a name for me they called me the girl with the beard
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forget the we can change the world i can't you can't as individuals but we can change the world i really believe that the people in this room look at the gates foundation they've done incredible stuff unbelievable stuff but working together we can actually change the world we can turn the inevitable outcomes and transform the quality of life for millions of lives who look and feel rather like us when you're up close i'm sorry to laugh here but you do look so different than you did in haight ashbury in the
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but some of them they haven't they don't feel the push from the ground is the truth but my disappointment has much more perspective when i talk to american people and i hear their worries about the deficit and the fiscal well being of their country i understand that but there's much more push from the ground than you'd think if we got organized what i try to communicate and you can help me if you agree is that aid for africa is just great value for money at a time when america really needs it putting it in the possible terms the investment reaps huge returns not only in lives saved but in goodwill stability and security that we'll gain so this is what i hope that you will do if i could be so bold and not have it deducted from my number of wishes
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the digital revolution yes the war against terror yes and what we did or did not do to put out the fires in africa some say we can't afford to i say we can't afford not to thank you thank you very much okay my three wishes the ones that ted has offered to grant you see if this is true and i believe it is that the digital world you all created has the creative imagination from the physical constraints of matter this should be a piece of piss
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i should add that this started out as a much longer list of wishes most of them impossible some of them impractical and one or two of them certainly immoral
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but still i'm sorry i can't be with you in person i'll explain at another time and though i'm a rock star i just want to assure you that none of my wishes will include a hot tub but what really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on players the revolution this revolution is much bigger than that
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now you need a camera that fits in your palm and a couple of bucks for a blank imagination has been from the old constraints and that really really excites me i'm excited when i glimpse that kind of thinking writ large what i would like to see is idealism from all constraints political economic psychological whatever the geopolitical world has got a lot to learn from the digital world from the ease with which you swept away obstacles that no one knew could even be budged and that's actually what i'd like to talk about today
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that's not a cause that's an emergency
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the next thing i'd like to be clear about is what this problem is and what this problem isn't because this is not all about charity this is about justice really this is not about charity this is about justice that's right
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this is about justice that's right and that's too bad because we're very good at charity americans like irish people are good at it even the poorest neighborhoods give more than they can afford we like to give and we give a lot look at the response to the tsunami it's inspiring but justice is a tougher standard than charity you see africa makes a fool of our idea of justice
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it is the perfect sound for our ears and our brain so when you hear this sound you feel like a kind of shelter preserved from noise pollution and when you hear the white noise your brain is immediately focused on it and do not be disturbed any more by the other aggressive sound it seems to be magic but it is just physiology it's just in your brain and in mine i hope so in order to make this white noise a little bit active and reactive i create a ball a rolling ball able to analyze and find where does aggressive sound come from and roll at home or at work towards aggressive noise and emits white noise in order to neutralize it
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i don't want to create a perfect object like a perfect robot i want to create an object like you and me so definitely not perfect so imagine for instance you are at home a loving dispute with your girl or boyfriend you shout you say blah blah blah blah blah blah who is this guy and will probably roll toward you and turning around you is like that
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k is a daylight receiver transmitter so this object is supposed to be displayed on your desk or on your piano where you are supposed to spend most of your time in the day and this object will be able to know exactly the quantity of light you receive during the day and able to give you the quantity of light you need this object is completely covered by fiber and the idea of those fiber is to inform the object for sure but creates the idea of an eye sensibility of the object i want by this design feel when you see it you see instinctively this object seems to be very sensitive very reactive and this object knows better than you and probably before you what you really need you have to know that the lack of daylight can provoke some problem of energy or problem of libido so a huge problem
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and the idea was to create some self moving benches in the main exhibition room so the living benches would be exactly like the ball and john was so excited by this idea he said to me okay let's go i remember the day of the opening i was a little bit late when i bring the living and self moving benches in the exhibition room john was just beside me and was like and he told me after a long silence i wonder mathieu if people won't be more fascinated by your benches than by my videos
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canary andrea is one andrea is a living air filter that absorbs toxic gasses from air contaminated indoor air so it uses some plants to do this job selected for their gas filtering ability you have to know or you probably already know that indoor air pollution is more toxic than outdoor one so while i'm talking to you the seats you are sitting on are currently emitting some invisible and odorless toxic gas sorry for that
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see like this one in this office you do not work and write and draw on a sheet of paper but you draw directly on a kind of huge cave like a prehistoric scientist so you like that can make some sport during your work in this office you do not need to go out in order to be in contact with nature you include directly the nature in the floor of the office you can see it there this is an inspiration image to lead this project of the office it really helped me to design it i never show it to my client he would be so afraid
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in the year the neurosurgeon wilder penfield saw himself like this a weird freak with huge hands huge mouth and a tiny bottom actually this creature is the result of the penfield research he named it basically the is the visualization of a human being where each part of the body is proportional to the surface it takes in the brain so of course is definitely not a freak it's you
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so of course is definitely not a freak it's you it's me it's our invisible reality this visualization could explain for example why newborns or smokers put instinctively their fingers in the mouth unfortunately it doesn't explain why so many designers remain mainly interested in designing chairs so anyway even if i do not understand science entirely for my design i essentially refer to it i'm fascinated by its ability to deeply investigate the human being its way of working its way of feeling and it really helps me to understand how we see how we hear how we breathe how our brain can inform or mislead us
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people have never been able to do that marketing reduces things marketing simplifies marketing creates user groups and scientists amidst complexity amidst fluctuation and uniqueness what could be our real needs maybe the silence
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marketing creates user groups and scientists amidst complexity amidst fluctuation and uniqueness what could be our real needs maybe the silence in our daily life we are continuously disturbed by aggressive sounds and you know all those kind of sound puts us in a kind of stressful state and prevent us from being quiet and focused so i wanted to create a kind of sound filter able to preserve ourselves from noise pollution but i didn't want it to make it by isolating people without any earmuffs or those kind of things or neither with including complex technology i just wanted to using the complexity and the technology of the brain of the human brain
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you feel the effect of the white noise it's too in silence if you make some noise you can feel the effect so even if this object even if this product includes some technology it includes some speakers it includes some microphones and some electronic devices this object is not a very smart object and i don't want to make a very smart object i don't want to create a perfect object like a perfect robot
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most of the projects i work on i live in collaboration with scientists i'm just a designer so i need them so there can be some biologists psychiatrists mathematicians and so on and i submit them my my hypothesis my first ideas and they react
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by making myself invisible i try to question the inter canceling relationship between our civilization and its development interpreter by making myself invisible i try to explore and question the contradictory and often inter canceling relationship between our civilization and its development this is my first work created in november and this is beijing international art camp where i worked before the government forcibly demolished it i used this work to express my objection i also want to use this work to let more people pay attention to the living condition of artists and the condition of their creative freedom in the meantime from the beginning this series has a protesting reflective and uncompromising spirit when applying makeup i borrow a sniper's method to better protect myself and to detect the enemy as he did
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when i work on a new piece i pay more attention to the expression of ideas for instance why would i make myself invisible what will making myself invisible here cause people to think this one is called instant noodles interpreter this one is called instant noodles
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from to million people lost their jobs in china the six people in the photo are gang workers i made them invisible in the deserted shop had lived and worked all their lives on the wall behind them is the slogan of the cultural revolution the core force leading our cause forward is the chinese communist party for half a month i looked for these people to participate in my work we can only see six men in this picture but in fact those who are hidden here are all people who were laid off they have just been made invisible this piece is called the studio
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this piece is called the studio this spring i happened to have an opportunity during my solo exhibition in paris to shoot a work in the news studio of france i picked the news photos of the day one is about the war in the middle east and another one is about a public demonstration in france i found that any culture has its irreconcilable contradictions this is a joint effort between me and french artist jr interpreter this is a joint effort between me and french artist jr i tried to disappear into eye but the problem is jr only uses models with big eyes so i tried to make my eyes bigger with my fingers
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i listened to this scientist this morning dr mullis was talking about his experiments and i realized that i almost became a scientist when i was my parents bought me a chemistry set and i decided to make water
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i'd like to start this session again the gentleman to my left is the very famous perhaps overly famous frank gehry
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there aren't many people around that are really involved with architecture as clients if you think about the world and even just in this audience most of us are involved with buildings nothing that you would call architecture right and so to find one a guy like that you hang on to him he's become the head of art center and there's a building by craig ellwood there i knew craig and respected him they want to add to it and it's hard to add to a building like that it's a beautiful minimalist black steel building and richard wants to add a library and more student stuff and it's a lot of acreage i convinced him to let me bring in another architect from portugal alvaro why did you want that i knew you'd ask that question it was intuitive
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anyway the thing it's a richer experience it must be like that for kyu doing things with musicians it's similar to that i would imagine where you huh liquid architecture liquid architecture
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it's like jazz you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something and i think for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city is it going to be near the current campus or is it going to be down near no it's near the current campus anyway he's that kind of patron it's not his money of course
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by saying all that it means your work is good somehow and i think everybody i mean that should be a matter of fact like gravity you're not going to defy gravity you've got to work with the building department if you don't meet the budgets you're not going to get much work if it leaks bilbao did not leak i was so proud
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they were there three days and it rained every day and they kept walking around i noticed they were looking under things and looking for things and they wanted to know where the buckets were hidden you know people put buckets out i was clean there wasn't a bloody leak in the place it was just fantastic but you've got to yeah well up until then every building leaked so this
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i mean it is astonishing for an artist for an architect to become actually an icon and a legend in their own time i mean you have become whether you can giggle at it because it's a funny you know it's a strange thought but your building is an icon you can draw a little picture of that building it can be used in ads and you've had not rock star status but celebrity status in doing what you wanted to do for most of your life and i know the road was extremely difficult and it didn't seem at least that your sell outs whatever they were were very big you kept moving ahead in a life where you're dependent on working for somebody but that's an interesting thing for a creative person
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a lot of us work for people we're in the hands of other people and that's one of the great dilemmas we're in a creativity session it's one of the great dilemmas in creativity how to do work that's big enough and not sell out and you've achieved that and that makes your win doubly big big it's not quite a question but you can comment on it it's a big issue well i've always just i've never really gone out looking for work
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i've never really gone out looking for work i always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head and when i started out i thought that architecture was a service business and that you had to please the clients and stuff and i realized when i'd come into the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff and people would just look at me like i'd just landed from mars but i couldn't do anything else that was my response to the people in the time and actually it was responding to clients that i had who didn't have very much money so they couldn't afford very much i think it was circumstantial
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but i just found out the world ain't going to last that long this guy was telling us the other day so where do we go now back to everything's so temporary i don't see it the way you characterized it for me every day is a new thing
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up and lived in portugal and is probably considered the portuguese main guy in architecture i visited with him a few years ago and he showed me his early work and his early work had a resemblance to my early work when i came out of college i started to try to do things in southern california and you got into the logic of spanish colonial tile roofs and things like that i tried to understand that language as a beginning as a place to jump off and there was so much of it being done by spec builders and it was trivialized so much that it wasn't i just stopped i mean charlie moore did a bunch of it but it didn't feel good to me
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that was the surprise of going across the river of going on the highway around it of walking down the street and finding it that was the real surprise of bilbao but you know richard most architects when they present their work most of the people we know you get up and you talk about your work and it's almost like you tell everybody you're a good guy by saying look i'm worried about the context i'm worried about the city i'm worried about my client i worry about budget that i'm on time blah blah blah and all that stuff and it's like cleansing yourself so that you can by saying all that it means your work is good somehow and i think everybody i mean that should be a matter of fact like gravity
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people wanted a michael graves building is that a curse that people want a bilbao building yeah since bilbao opened which is now four five years both and i have been called with at least opportunities china brazil other parts of spain to come in and do the bilbao effect and i've met with some of these people usually i say no right away but some of them come with pedigree and they sound well intentioned and they get you for at least one or two meetings
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about one laptop per child now let's talk about some of the characteristics that are important for this revolutionary device i'll tell you a little bit about the design parameters and then i'll show it to you in person first of all it needs to be small it needs to be flat so it's transportable lightweight
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and the senior water rights holders if they don't use their water right they risk losing their water right along with the economic value that goes with it so they have no incentive to conserve so it's not just about the number of people the system itself creates a disincentive to conserve because you can lose your water right if you don't use it so after decades of lawsuits and years now of experience we still have this it's a broken system there's a disincentive to conserve because if you don't use your water right you can lose your water right and i'm sure you all know this has created significant conflicts between the agricultural and environmental communities ok now i'm going to change gears here most of you will be happy to know that the rest of the free
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and it involves beer i bet you didn't know it takes about pints of water to make a pint of beer if you include all the drain it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer now the brewers in montana have already done a lot to reduce their water consumption but they still use millions of gallons of water i mean there's water in beer so what can they do about this remaining water footprint that can have serious effects on the ecosystem these ecosystems are really important to the montana brewers and their customers after all there's a strong correlation between water and fishing and for some there's a strong correlation between fishing and beer
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this is a river this is a stream this is a river this is happening all over the country there are tens of thousands of miles of streams in the united states on this map the colored areas represent water conflicts
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it runs through a populated area from east helena to lake helena it supports wild fish including cutthroat brown and rainbow trout nearly every year for more than a hundred years it looked like this in the summer how did we get here well it started back in the late when people started settling in places like montana in short there was a lot of water and there weren't very many people but as more people showed up wanting water the folks who were there first got a little concerned and in montana passed its first water law
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i'm an economist i do dismal end of the day it's ready for dismal remarks i only want to talk to those of you who want a great career i know some of you have already decided you want a good career you're going to fail too
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well great careers are really and truly for most people just a matter of luck so i'm going to stand around i'm going to try to be lucky and if i'm lucky i'll have a great career if not i'll have a good career but a good career is an impossibility so that's not going to work then your other excuse is yes there are special people who pursue their passions but they are geniuses they are steven j i'm not a genius when i was five i thought i was a genius but my professors have beaten that idea out of my head long since
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won't happen won't happen and you will die alone
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what you want what you want is passion it is beyond interest you need interests and then one of them one of them might grab you one of them might engage you more than anything else and then you may have found your greatest love in comparison to all the other things that interest you and that's what passion is i have a friend proposed to his sweetie he was an economically rational person he said to his sweetie let us marry let us merge our interests
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i love you truly he said i love you deeply i love you more than any other woman i've ever encountered i love you more than mary jane susie penelope ingrid gertrude gretel i was on a german exchange program then i love you more than all right she left the room halfway through his enumeration of his love for her after he got over his surprise at being you know turned down he concluded he'd had a narrow escape from marrying an irrational person although he did make a note to himself that the next time he proposed it was perhaps not necessary to enumerate all of the women he had auditioned for the part
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the point stands you must look for alternatives so that you find your destiny or are you afraid of the word destiny does the word destiny scare you that's what we're talking about and if you don't find the highest expression of your talent if you settle for interesting what the hell ever that means do you know what will happen at the end of your long life your friends and family will be gathered in the cemetery and there beside your gravesite will be a tombstone and inscribed on that tombstone it will say here lies a distinguished engineer who invented velcro but what that tombstone should have said in an alternative lifetime what it should have said if it was your highest expression of talent was here lies the last nobel laureate in physics who formulated the grand unified field theory and demonstrated the practicality of warp drive
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i'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it you're too lazy to do it it's too hard you're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it you'll feel like you're an idiot so then you make excuses about why you're not going to look for your passion they are excuses ladies and gentlemen we're going to go through a whole long list your creativity in thinking of excuses not to do what you really need to do if you want to have a great career
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ah but i still want a great career i'm not prepared to pursue my passion so i know what i'm going to do because i have a solution i have a strategy it's the one mommy and daddy told me about mommy and daddy told me that if i worked hard i'd have a good career so if you work hard and have a good career if you work really really really hard you'll have a great career
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and so the sins of the parents are visited on the poor children why will you seek refuge in human relationships as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion you know why in your heart of hearts you know why and i'm being deadly serious you know why you would get all warm and fuzzy and wrap yourself up in human relationships it is because you are you know what you are
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and that's why you're not going to have a great career unless unless that most evocative of all english words unless but the unless word is also attached to that other most terrifying phrase if only i had if only i had if you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain it will hurt a lot
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consider this like the prophets all the superheroes are missing parents superman's parents die on krypton before the age of one bruce wayne who becomes batman loses his parents at the age of six in gotham city spiderman is raised by his aunt and uncle and all of them just like the prophets who get their message from god through gabriel get their message from above peter parker is in a library in manhattan when the spider descends from above and gives him his message through a bite bruce wayne is in his bedroom when a big bat flies over his head and he sees it as an omen to become batman superman is not only sent to earth from the heavens or krypton but he's sent in a pod much like moses was on the nile
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and so the of the takes place in which history tells us the mongols invaded baghdad and destroyed it all the books from bait al library the most famous library in its day were thrown in the tigris river and the tigris changes color with ink it's a story passed on generation after generation i rewrote that story and in my version the librarians find out that this is going to happen and here's a side note if you want a comic book to do well make the librarians the hero it always works well
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